By Terry Pratchett
It's undesirable sufficient being new at the activity, yet Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is meant to do. in any case, he's been educated at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' tuition, around the sea from the dominion of the Sun.First, there's the enormous activity of creating an appropriate resting position for Dad -- a pyramid to finish all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative tasks, corresponding to facing mad monks, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to best all of it off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal -- let alone aheadstrong handmaiden -- on the middle of his realm.
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The king nodded back. “That sounds approximately right,” he acknowledged. “They’ve come to their senses finally. ” “You be aware of what i believe, sir? ” stated Dil earnestly. “Everything we think is coming precise. and that i heard whatever else, sir. This morning, if it used to be this morning, you realize, as the sun’s in every single place, sir, and it’s now not the appropriate kind of sunlight, yet this morning the various infantrymen attempted to get out alongside the Ephebe street, sir, and have you learnt what they discovered? ” “What did they locate? ” “The street out, sir, leads in! ” Dil took a step backward the higher to demonstrate the seriousness of the revelations. “They received up into the rocks after which unexpectedly they have been strolling down the Tsort street. all of it type of curves again on itself. We’re close in, sir. close in with our gods. ” And I’m close in my physique, idea the king. every little thing we think is right? And what we think isn’t what we expect we think. I suggest, we expect we think that the gods are clever and simply and robust, yet what we actually think is they are like our father after an extended day. And we expect we think the Netherworld is a type of paradise, yet we actually think it’s the following and also you visit it on your physique and I’m in it and I’m by no means going to break out. by no means, ever. “What’s my son obtained to assert approximately all this? ” he stated. Dil coughed. It used to be the ominous cough. The Spanish use an upside-down query mark to inform you what you’re approximately to listen to is a question; this was once the type of cough that tells you what you’re approximately to listen to is a dirge. “Don’t know the way to inform you this, sir,” he stated. “Out with it, guy. ” “Sir, they are saying he’s lifeless, sir. they are saying he killed himself and ran away. ” “Killed himself? ” “Sorry, sir. ” “And ran away later on? ” “On a camel, they are saying. ” “We lead an lively afterlife in our kin, don’t we? ” saw the king dryly. “Beg pardon, sir? ” “I suggest, the 2 statements can be held to be jointly unique. ” Dil’s face grew to become a well-meaning clean. “That is to claim, they can’t either be true,” provided the king, helpfully. “Ahem,” stated Dil. “Yes, yet I’m a different case,” acknowledged the king testily. “In this country we think you reside after loss of life provided that you’ve been mumm—” He stopped. It used to be too terrible to consider. He considered it, however, for your time. Then he stated, “We needs to take care of it. ” Dil stated, “Your son, sir? ” “Never brain approximately my son, he’s now not lifeless, I’d learn about it,” snapped the king. “He can take care of himself, he’s my son. It’s my ancestors I’m apprehensive approximately. ” “But they’re dead—” Dil all started. It has already been remarked that Dil had a truly bad mind's eye. In a task like his a terrible mind's eye used to be crucial. yet his mind’s eye opened on a landscape of pyramids, stretching alongside the river, and his mind’s ear swooped and curved via strong doorways that no thief might penetrate. And it heard the scrabbling. And it heard the hammering. And it heard the muffled shouting. The king positioned a bandaged arm over his trembling shoulders. “I comprehend you’re a very good guy with a needle, Dil,” he acknowledged.